Counting domestic and multinational corporates, private equity houses, investment funds and family offices among its key roster of clients, Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee handles cross-border transactions, with demonstrable experience across the consumer goods, healthcare, life sciences, technology, and financial services sectors. Stephanie Keen leads the team and boasts a strong track record in leveraged buyouts, M&A, equity offerings and corporate restructurings. Counsel Sylvia Taslim, who focuses on a variety of first-of-its-kind transactions in the emerging markets, is another key contact in the group.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Very commercial and efficient.’

  • ‘Stephanie Keen is always excellent.’

  • ‘Esther Wong is super reliable, commercial and aware.’

Key clients

  • PhonePe
  • Navis Capital Partners
  • Flipkart Private Limited
  • Affirma Capital Managers
  • Woodward, Inc.
  • Marubeni Growth Capital Asia
  • Giift Management Asia Pte. Ltd.

Work highlights

  • Advised PhonePe Singapore on the separation of ownership of PhonePe Private Limited, India (PhonePe India) from the Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart Private Limited (Flipkart).
  • Advised Navis Capital, an Asia-based private equity firm, on the sale of its entire interest in TES-Envirocorp Pte. Ltd. (TES) to SK ecoplant Co., Ltd. (SK ecoplant).
  • Advised Marubeni Growth Capital Asia on their entry into a master franchising and IP licensing agreement with Tim Hortons Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of Restaurant Brands International.

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Stephanie Keen

Other key lawyers

Sylvia Taslim, Esther Wong